Three articles you’re reading:1. Inventors of clown-fear: Grimaldi, the despairing clown and Charles Dickens. ~link2. From M.I.T.: Bad memories can be “repaired.” Memory is written and re-written as it is recalled, leading to potential treatments for PTSD-provoking memories. ~link3. Humor: A day in the life of a target-demo female ~link

Your random fact:This week in 1937, Ernest Hemingway confronted Max Eastman in the offices of Scribner's on Fifth Avenue. Because Eastman had cast aspersions on Hemingway's macho persona, Hemingway pinned him on the floor, exposed Eastman's hairless chest, then exposed his own hairy one and laughed.